Ram Shahristan: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit |
Citation bot (talk | contribs) Alter: pages. Formatted dashes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | #UCB_CommandLine |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|This place was inhabited by Ram}}'''Ram Shahristan''' (or '''Abrashariyar''') was the ancient capital of [[Sistan]], in what is now southwestern [[Afghanistan]] and southeastern [[Iran]]. |
{{Short description|This place was inhabited by Ram}}'''Ram Shahristan''' (or '''Abrashariyar''') was the ancient capital of [[Sistan]], in what is now southwestern [[Afghanistan]] and southeastern [[Iran]]. |
||
Per Arab geographers, prior to [[Zaranj]] the capital of Sistan was Ram Shahristan. Ram Shahristan had been supplied with water by a canal from the [[Helmand River]], but its dam broke, the area was deprived of water, and the populace moved three days' march to found Zaranj.<ref name=Strange>Guy Le Strange. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_88AAAAIAAJ |
Per Arab geographers, prior to [[Zaranj]] the capital of Sistan was Ram Shahristan. Ram Shahristan had been supplied with water by a canal from the [[Helmand River]], but its dam broke, the area was deprived of water, and the populace moved three days' march to found Zaranj.<ref name=Strange>Guy Le Strange. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_88AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22ram+shahristan%22&pg=PA340 The lands of the eastern caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur]. Cambridge geographical series. General editor: F. H. H. Guillemard. reprint Publisher CUP Archive, 1930. Originally published 1905.</ref> |
||
The ruins of Ram Shahristan were, by the 10th century AD, already swallowed up by the deserts, with only a few remnants of buildings visible.<ref name=Strange/> |
The ruins of Ram Shahristan were, by the 10th century AD, already swallowed up by the deserts, with only a few remnants of buildings visible.<ref name=Strange/> |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
==Further reading== |
==Further reading== |
||
* {{cite journal |last1=Mehrafarin |first1=Reza |last2=Mousavi Haji |first2=Seyyed Rasool |title=In Search of Ram Shahrestan: The Capital of the Sistan Province in the Sassanid Era |journal=Central Asiatic Journal |date=2010 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages= |
* {{cite journal |last1=Mehrafarin |first1=Reza |last2=Mousavi Haji |first2=Seyyed Rasool |title=In Search of Ram Shahrestan: The Capital of the Sistan Province in the Sassanid Era |journal=Central Asiatic Journal |date=2010 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=256–272}} |
||
{{coord missing|Afghanistan}} |
{{coord missing|Afghanistan}} |
||
Latest revision as of 17:18, 17 March 2023
Ram Shahristan (or Abrashariyar) was the ancient capital of Sistan, in what is now southwestern Afghanistan and southeastern Iran.
Per Arab geographers, prior to Zaranj the capital of Sistan was Ram Shahristan. Ram Shahristan had been supplied with water by a canal from the Helmand River, but its dam broke, the area was deprived of water, and the populace moved three days' march to found Zaranj.[1]
The ruins of Ram Shahristan were, by the 10th century AD, already swallowed up by the deserts, with only a few remnants of buildings visible.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Guy Le Strange. The lands of the eastern caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. Cambridge geographical series. General editor: F. H. H. Guillemard. reprint Publisher CUP Archive, 1930. Originally published 1905.
Further reading
[edit]- Mehrafarin, Reza; Mousavi Haji, Seyyed Rasool (2010). "In Search of Ram Shahrestan: The Capital of the Sistan Province in the Sassanid Era". Central Asiatic Journal. 54 (2): 256–272.